East Vancouver based Babelle Theatre has revealed its 2018 season of new works aimed for millennial and young audiences. Co-directed by Marie Farsi and James Gordon King Babelle Theatre has a mandate is to produce experimental and ambitious theatrical works; inspired by multiple cultural traditions, the company aims to push borders of space and language and to…
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Picks of the Week – May 9, 2018
It’s May and the sun has (mostly) returned to bring light to our longers days filled with entertaining picks of the week Taste: Join the tasty tribe as Vancouver Foodster’s Tasting Plates Kitsilano explores the West Side neighbourhood this evening Woods: Head Into The Woods until Saturday, as the North Shore Light Opera Society brings the Tony…
Ignite! Festival 2018 takes over The Cultch
The Cultch’s Youth Panel are bringing IGNITE! Youth-Driven Arts Festival to The Cultch’s Historic and Vancity Culture Lab — with youth led programming and new work by local youth playwrights— from May 8-19. IGNITE! is an eclectic festival, programmed and curated entirely by members of the Youth Panel at the Cultch. It features theatre performers, dancers,…
More Mochrie in May at Vancouver TheatreSports
Vancouver TheatreSports alumnus and star of Whose Line Is It Anyway, Colin Mochrie, has added another show to his upcoming run of performances with VTSL. Join Colin for four shows benefiting the Colin Mochrie Scholarship Fund at VTSL’s theatre school, The Improv Comedy Institute. Since 2014, the scholarship provides assistance to those wishing to study improv but are unable…
Arts Umbrella Expressions Theatre Festival 2018
Arts Umbrella has revealed the line up for the 2018 Expressions Theatre Festival. Running May 17 – 26, 2018 at the Waterfront Theatre, the festival showcases the talented young artists in Arts Umbrella’s Intensive, Pre-Professional and Theatre Conservatory Programs. This annual festival boasts a bevy of captivating productions, from the whimsical family fun of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to…
Picks of the Week – May 2, 2018
It’s finally here, April showers have been left behind and brought flowers plus more entertainment for our first picks of week in May. Colour: This is your last chance to celebrate the colours of spring with a visit to the Abbotsford Tulip Festival 10 acres covered in millions of blooms until Thursday May 3rd. R&B: Start the…
Australia’s Circa Left Chan Centre Audiences Breathless
Last weekend, Circa, contemporary circus troupe thrilled the house in the Chan Shun Concert Hall at the Chan Centre for Performing Arts at UBC with their touring show, OPUS. The bold, Brisbane-based performers were accompanied onstage by the Debussy String Quartet, blending the live music and thrilling acrobatics into a one of a kind show….